HONG KONG student Peter Wong King-hang recently became the first Asian student to audition for a music scholarship offered by the University of Warwick.
That is not the only way Peter managed to make history: his audition was done via video-conferencing in a studio at the Hongkong Telecom office in Central - another first.
Peter, who is finishing his last year at Li Po Chun United World College, played the flute in front of two professors and was congratulated for his fine half-hour performance.
'This hasn't been done by the university before. Music auditions are normally held at the university. It was done this way because of the huge expense of travelling, and Peter could save himself from the stress of travelling to the UK,' said Pamela Wood, the university's Hong Kong and China office administrator.
'The technology is here. Before, it was not cost-effective,' she said.
Peter, 19, was the only Hong Kong applicant and was chosen from at least eight other Asian competitors for the audition.
The scholarship, for recreation music purposes, is competitive because of the reputation of the university's Music Centre and its orchestra which travels and performs in Europe.
